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Source Description
Although he was an accomplished portraitist, Elliott had received little formal training apart from six months in 1829 spent in the studio of John Quidor (1801-81), who had broken with the traditional realism prevailing in the first half of the 19th century to produce highly fanciful scenes taken from the literature of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. In this scene, Elliott appears to acknowledge his indebtedness to Quidor who, by then, had been almost completely forgotten by the public.In this work, Elliott had depicted the rotund Anthony Van Corlear, who won "prodigious favor in the eyes of the women by means of his whiskers and his trumpet." This scene is taken from Washington Irving's "Diederich Knickerboker's, A History of New York," (1809).
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Document identity
localId
14166
label
Anthony Van Corlear
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
14166
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Anthony Van Corlear
description
Although he was an accomplished portraitist, Elliott had received little formal training apart from six months in 1829 spent in the studio of John Quidor (1801-81), who had broken with the traditional realism prevailing in the first half of the 19th century to produce highly fanciful scenes taken from the literature of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. In this scene, Elliott appears to acknowledge his indebtedness to Quidor who, by then, had been almost completely forgotten by the public.In this work, Elliott had depicted the rotund Anthony Van Corlear, who won "prodigious favor in the eyes of the women by means of his whiskers and his trumpet." This scene is taken from Washington Irving's "Diederich Knickerboker's, A History of New York," (1809).
provenance
Estate of William Tylee Ranner [date and mode of acquisition unknown; Ranney Sale, New York, December 1858, no. 175; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1858 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1858
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
30.7
height
25.4
dimensionsRaw
H: 12 1/16 x W: 10 in. (30.7 x 25.4 cm); Framed H: 20 1/4 x W: 18 1/2 xD: 3 1/4 in. (51.4 x 47 x 8.3 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] Lower right corner: Elliott; [Date] Lower right corner: 1858
med
oil on canvas
creator_ids
4578
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
2353
2728
Single page context
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1
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0
type
photo
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